“Once is Not Enough” Just because it was playing at other theatres doesn’t mean it was not a move-over from the Astor Plaza where it had been playing for three months.
MARK TRIPLEX (as per the intro) The triplex opened in December 1976 so the marquee could not have been up in 1975. “In Search of Noah’s Ark” was a first-run opening feature. By September 1977 the Mark was closed.
EMBASSY 2,3,4 (as per the intro) Opened in December 1977 with “A Piece of the Action” on move-over from the Criterion on two screens.
“Apocalypse Now” This August 1979 release moved from the Ziegfeld to the Cinerama Twin in November 1979 in the 70mm print version. In late December 1979 it opened on all three Embassy screens, now three years old, in 35mm.
Nice interior shots of this theatre during its early heyday as a classy nightclub can be seen in the final scenes of the Lucille Ball- Henry Fonda 1942 film “The Big Street”. Although it looks like a fake art-deco set, it is actually the Cinema Casino.
This google shot shows what a crime it was to open a cinema here.
Please add Liberty City Drive-In as an aka.
This location showed films as the Fulton.
‘Rutgers’ as far I can see.
If you look closely it is a slide for Disney’s “SANTA CLAUS 2” (2002) and Pepsi probably sponsored the slide show.
Although it does not show the Ziegfeld at its best it is an interesting snap-shot of a short-lived part of movie history in the pre-digital age.
It’s not really a balcony. It is simply stadium seating in the back.
The Night Shift had a separate address upstairs but the Moulin Rouge (3 screens, 1985) may have encompassed both.
Well TV ownership was insignificant until the fifties and the main flight to the suburbs also occurred after the war.
You left out the competition from new palaces with live entertainment at depression prices.
“Once is Not Enough” Just because it was playing at other theatres doesn’t mean it was not a move-over from the Astor Plaza where it had been playing for three months.
MARK TRIPLEX (as per the intro) The triplex opened in December 1976 so the marquee could not have been up in 1975. “In Search of Noah’s Ark” was a first-run opening feature. By September 1977 the Mark was closed.
EMBASSY 2,3,4 (as per the intro) Opened in December 1977 with “A Piece of the Action” on move-over from the Criterion on two screens.
“Apocalypse Now” This August 1979 release moved from the Ziegfeld to the Cinerama Twin in November 1979 in the 70mm print version. In late December 1979 it opened on all three Embassy screens, now three years old, in 35mm.
I don’t think Warner gutted the Beacon interior. I suspect they redesigned it for sound.
My guess would be the depression. Some theatre owners couldn’t discount enough to compete.
“The Blue Max” was a two shows a day Roadshow at the Sutton.
Nice interior shots of this theatre during its early heyday as a classy nightclub can be seen in the final scenes of the Lucille Ball- Henry Fonda 1942 film “The Big Street”. Although it looks like a fake art-deco set, it is actually the Cinema Casino.
I doubt it, Luis. It was a mini-mall for years.
The Address was 8549 CORAL WAY, 33155
Great new site.
Love the ‘subscribe’ option, photo options and the easy to read type.
One minor peeve; on the theatre search option, I think you meant ‘number of screens’ instead of ‘screen size’.
Astyanax, the take-over goes back to 1943 so it may have been independently owned before that.
Guild did. It says it in the intro.
I found the ads for “ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH”. It played at the DeMille subrun in September on move-over from the Astor Plaza.
techman,
“Walking Tall” was playing subrun at the DeMille in August-September 1974 when the theatre disappears from NYT ads. Is this when it caught fire?
techman, “Once Is Not Enough” opened at the Astor Plaza in June 1975. “Walking Tall” was not released in New York until 1974.
The DeMille re-opened as the Mark 1-2-3 in 1976.
“Walking Tall” opened here in February 1974. the New York premiere was almost a year after the rest of the country.
Thank you Harvey.
And THX was a noise reduction certification system that was mostly about marketing and collecting fees even if standards failed.
So the light on the screen is generated by the lens, not the lamp, and THX was some kind of projection brightness system.
Got it!
I knew Al well.